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Extension of abortion: a political risk for Emmanuel Macron

2021-10-07T19:08:19.975Z


ANALYSIS - To proclaim loud and clear the need to reform the legal deadline for abortion could embolden opponents of this measure.


Persistence in the name of a "choice of society" or to the point of risky endlessness?

By promising the adoption by the National Assembly, at the end of November, of the very controversial extension of the legal deadline for the voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) - which would go from twelve to fourteen weeks -, Christophe Castaner is not only opposed to Emmanuel Macron.

He also takes a risk, as the matter at stake remains sensitive: that of dividing the political class and deepening the societal divide in the country, a few months before the presidential election in April 2022.

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The leader of the Marcheurs deputies may well defend a measure of

“effective rights”

for women, his method is surprising.

Since the start of the school year, the executive and elected officials of La République en Marche (LREM) have been striving to apply the “no wave” strategy, with the concern not to open a front of contestation.

"Not favorable"

This logic prevailed both on subjects related to the cost of living - suspension of technical control of two-wheelers in August,

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Source: lefigaro

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